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How to start an antimicrobial stewardship programme in a hospital by Mendelson, M., Morris, A.M., Thursky, K., Pulcini, C.

“…Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) describes a coherent set of actions that ensure optimal use of antimicrobials to improve patient outcomes, while limiting the…”
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Prevalence of Familial Hypercholesterolemia in the 1999 to 2012 United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) by de Ferranti, Sarah D, Rodday, Angie Mae, Mendelson, Michael M, Wong, John B, Leslie, Laurel K, Sheldrick, R Christopher

“…BACKGROUND—The prevalence of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is commonly reported as 1 in 500. European reports suggest a higher prevalence; the US FH…”
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Antibiotic stewardship in low- and middle-income countries: the same but different? by Cox, J.A., Vlieghe, E., Mendelson, M., Wertheim, H., Ndegwa, L., Villegas, M.V., Gould, I., Levy Hara, G.

“…Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a quickly worsening problem worldwide, also in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Appropriate antibiotic use in humans…”
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A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption by Liu, C, Marioni, R E, Hedman, Å K, Pfeiffer, L, Tsai, P-C, Reynolds, L M, Just, A C, Duan, Q, Boer, C G, Tanaka, T, Elks, C E, Aslibekyan, S, Brody, J A, Kühnel, B, Herder, C, Almli, L M, Zhi, D, Wang, Y, Huan, T, Yao, C, Mendelson, M M, Joehanes, R, Liang, L, Love, S-A, Guan, W, Shah, S, McRae, A F, Kretschmer, A, Prokisch, H, Strauch, K, Peters, A, Visscher, P M, Wray, N R, Guo, X, Wiggins, K L, Smith, A K, Binder, E B, Ressler, K J, Irvin, M R, Absher, D M, Hernandez, D, Ferrucci, L, Bandinelli, S, Lohman, K, Ding, J, Trevisi, L, Gustafsson, S, Sandling, J H, Stolk, L, Uitterlinden, A G, Yet, I, Castillo-Fernandez, J E, Spector, T D, Schwartz, J D, Vokonas, P, Lind, L, Li, Y, Fornage, M, Arnett, D K, Wareham, N J, Sotoodehnia, N, Ong, K K, van Meurs, J B J, Conneely, K N, Baccarelli, A A, Deary, I J, Bell, J T, North, K E, Liu, Y, Waldenberger, M, London, S J, Ingelsson, E, Levy, D

“…The lack of reliable measures of alcohol intake is a major obstacle to the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol-related diseases. Epigenetic modifications such…”
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Role of antibiotic stewardship in extending the age of modern medicine by Mendelson, M

“…Antibiotic resistance is threatening modern medicine. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics is driving resistance to such an extent that we have entered the…”
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Long-COVID: An evolving problem with an extensive impact by Mendelson, M, Nel, J, Blumberg, L, Madhi, S A, Dryden, M, Stevens, W, Venter, F W D

“…Persistence of symptoms or development of new symptoms relating to SARS-CoV-2 infection late in the course of COVID-19 is an increasingly recognised problem…”
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Long-COVID : an evolving problem with an extensive impact by Mendelson, M, Nel, J, Blumberg, L, Madhi, S.A, Dryden, M, Stevens, W, Venter, F.W.D

“…Persistence of symptoms or development of new symptoms relating to SARS-CoV-2 infection late in the course of COVID-19 is an increasingly recognised problem…”
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Developing core elements and checklist items for global hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes: a consensus approach by Pulcini, C., Binda, F., Lamkang, A.S., Trett, A., Charani, E., Goff, D.A., Harbarth, S., Hinrichsen, S.L., Levy-Hara, G., Mendelson, M., Nathwani, D., Gunturu, R., Singh, S., Srinivasan, A., Thamlikitkul, V., Thursky, K., Vlieghe, E., Wertheim, H., Zeng, M., Gandra, S., Laxminarayan, R.

“…With increasing global interest in hospital antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes, there is a strong demand for core elements of AMS to be clearly defined…”
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Association Between Minimum Inhibitory Concentration, Beta-lactamase Genes and Mortality for Patients Treated With Piperacillin/Tazobactam or Meropenem From the MERINO Study by Henderson, A, Paterson, D L, Chatfield, M D, Tambyah, P A, Lye, D C, De, P P, Lin, R T P, Chew, K L, Yin, M, Lee, T H, Yilmaz, M, Cakmak, R, Alenazi, T H, Arabi, Y M, Falcone, M, Bassetti, M, Righi, E, Rogers, B A, Kanj, S S, Bhally, H, Iredell, J, Mendelson, M, Boyles, T H, Looke, D F M, Runnegar, N J, Miyakis, S, Walls, G, Khamis, M A I, Zikri, A, Crowe, A, Ingram, P R, Daneman, N, Griffin, P, Athan, E, Roberts, L, Beatson, S A, Peleg, A Y, Cottrell, K, Bauer, M J, Tan, E, Chaw, K, Nimmo, G R, Harris-Brown, T, Harris, P N A

“…Abstract Introduction This study aims to assess the association of piperacillin/tazobactam and meropenem minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and beta-lactam…”
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Marked progress in AL amyloidosis survival: a 40-year longitudinal natural history study by Staron, Andrew, Zheng, Luke, Doros, Gheorghe, Connors, Lawreen H., Mendelson, Lisa M., Joshi, Tracy, Sanchorawala, Vaishali

“…The recent decades have ushered in considerable advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of systemic light chain (AL) amyloidosis. As disease outcomes…”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaxxers – supporting healthcare workers to navigate the unvaccinated: Reflections from clinical practice by Hoare, J, Mendelson, M, Frenkel, L

“…An important step in preparation for the fourth COVID-19 wave is to provide healthcare workers (HCWs) with skills to facilitate behaviour change in…”
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Strengthening the science of addressing antimicrobial resistance: a framework for planning, conducting and disseminating antimicrobial resistance intervention research by Rogers Van Katwyk, S, Hoffman, S J, Mendelson, M, Taljaard, M, Grimshaw, J M

“…Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has the potential to threaten tens of millions of lives and poses major global economic and development challenges. As the AMR…”
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Human resources estimates and funding for antibiotic stewardship teams are urgently needed by Pulcini, C., Morel, C.M., Tacconelli, E., Beovic, B., de With, K., Goossens, H., Harbarth, S., Holmes, A., Howard, P., Morris, A.M., Nathwani, D., Sharland, M., Schouten, J., Thursky, K., Laxminarayan, R., Mendelson, M.

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The geography of infectious diseases in Africa: From endemic populations to travelers by Mendelson, M

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Human resources estimates and funding for antibiotic stewardship teams are urgently needed: authors' response by Pulcini, C., Beovic, B., Howard, P., Mendelson, M.

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Building resilient and responsive research collaborations to tackle antimicrobial resistance—Lessons learnt from India, South Africa, and UK by Veepanattu, P., Singh, S., Mendelson, M., Nampoothiri, V., Edathadatil, F., Surendran, S, Bonaconsa, C., Mbamalu, O., Ahuja, S., Birgand, G., Tarrant, C., Sevdalis, N., Ahmad, R., Castro-Sanchez, E., Holmes, A., Charani, E.

“…•Capacity building for research and implementation is key to operationalzing concerted and sustained strategies for addressing antimicrobial…”
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Sustained reduction in antibiotic consumption in a South African public sector hospital : four-year outcomes from the Groote Schuur Hospital antibiotic stewardship programme by Eick, B., Naicker, V., Boyles, T.H., Raubenheimer, P.J., Rawoot, N., Mendelson, M.

“…Background. Overuse of antibiotics has driven global bacterial resistance to the extent that we have entered a post-antibiotic era, where infections that were…”
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Transgelin: a new gene involved in LDL endocytosis identified by a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen by Lucero, Diego, Dikilitas, Ozan, Mendelson, Michael M., Aligabi, Zahra, Islam, Promotto, Neufeld, Edward B., Bansal, Aruna T., Freeman, Lita A., Vaisman, Boris, Tang, Jingrong, Combs, Christian A., Li, Yuesheng, Voros, Szilard, Kullo, Iftikhar J., Remaley, Alan T.

“…A significant proportion of patients with elevated LDL and a clinical presentation of familial hypercholesterolemia do not carry known genetic mutations…”
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Missed opportunities for hand hygiene at the patient's bedside: a pilot descriptive study by Mbamalu, O, Bonaconsa, C, Surendran, S, Nampoothiri, V, Pennel, T, Boutall, A, Papavarnavas, N, Singh, S, Holmes, A, Charani, E, Mendelson, M

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Study reporting quality among interventions to reduce antibiotic use is a barrier to evidence-informed policymaking on antimicrobial resistance: systematic review by Rogers Van Katwyk, S, Grimshaw, J M, Nkangu, M, Mendelson, M, Taljaard, M, Hoffman, S J

“…Abstract Background Countries are currently seeking evidence-informed policy options to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While rigorous evaluations of…”
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